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- infinitewarsWild hardware flex for a garage project. Reverse-engineering the Pi 5's MIPI to push 5.6 Gbps from custom MASH sigma-delta ADCs to a Lattice ECP5 FPGA to the Raspberry Pi is serious engineering. The idea that the RF receiver looks like a "camera" to the Pi while the transmitter is a "display" is super creative. Getting a 1.5 kW, 240-antenna EME array for $2,499 is actually cheap for something like this.Their standalone 4-antenna tiles (https://moonrf.com/updates/) show off some killer apps, like 30 fps spatial RF visualization and NEON-optimized drone video interception.I'm rolling my eyes at the "Agentic Transceiver" part, though. It is highly doubtful that an onboard AI casually writes, debugs, and compiles a real-time C app with analog video color sync recovery and decode in ten minutes.
- lutuspFor context, the same phased-array transceiver technology is used in Starlink terminals, some of which have 1,280 active elements. Such a terminal can require as much as 150W to function.It's also why pictures of modern naval vessels show flat panels instead of rotating parabolic antennas as in past decades. The panels contain advanced phased-array radars.
- O5vYtytb> Power Supply: 12 V DC (≈1.5 kW peak)That's a lot of juice for 12VDC
- drmpegPrevious post.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45790672
- manuelmenzellaIt says it’s open source but I can’t find a link to a repository. Am I missing something?
- thomashabets2"Country restrictions apply". Which countries?
- mschuster91> The target launch price is probably ~$399 (dependent on the tariff landscape over the next month). For that you get the QuadRF tile, an included Raspberry Pi 5, the custom case, tripod, USB-C power supply, cables, and a pre-loaded SD card with a ton of cool SDR applications.Meanwhile... the RPi alone will probably make up 299 dollars of that price tag [1].It is not a good time to design hardware that needs RAM. Arrest and imprison Sam Altman.[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/dram-pricing-is-killi...
- diimdeepCool, how full array compares to the single antenna placed on Starlink satellite ?